🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #ExhibitClosing “Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick" closes at #FrickMadison on Sunday, January 7, 2024
945 Madison Avenue, #NYC 10021
www.frick.org/exhibitions/hendricks
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/hendricks
"This 2023 presentation celebrates the remarkable figurative work of Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017) through a focused selection of portraiture drawn from private and public collections. This pioneering American artist, who counted the Frick among his favorite museums, continues to inspire artists and designers today...
Barkley L. Hendricks revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects that emphasize the dignity and individuality of his sitters. Beginning in the late 1960s, his work drew from and challenged traditions of European art, and The Frick Collection—with its iconic portraits by Rembrandt, Bronzino, Van Dyck, and others—was one of his favorite museums.
Through a selection of some of Hendricks’s finest portraits displayed in the context of the Frick’s holdings, this exhibition celebrates and explores the remarkable work of this pioneering American painter with an unprecedented display of paintings drawn from private and public collections. Organized by #AimeeNg, Curator at the Frick, and Consulting Curator #AntwaunSargent, Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick considers the complex place of European painting in Hendricks’s art and the evolving role of the Frick in modern American culture."
🎥Reposted from @frickcollection
"Watch as Curator Aimee Ng and Consulting Curator Antwaun Sargent introduce 'Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick...' The show presents fourteen of the finest portraits by the American painter displayed in the context of the Frick—one of his favorite museums—and explores the enduring legacies both of Hendricks’s pioneering work and of the museum itself.
Learn more at the link in bio.
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